Save Our Seafarers: The Cost of Piracy

SaveOurSeafarers was established in March 2011 and is calling for unified action to raise awareness of the human and economic cost of piracy.
We are one of the biggest ever maritime industry groupings, comprising twenty-eight organisations that have joined together to raise awareness of the human and economic cost of piracy.
Our campaign has gained support worldwide including, the Philippines, South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and from many other countries within Europe.
We understand the problems Somalia faces (the most prolific area for attacks) after 20 years of vicious civil war but we believe our innocent seafarers and the global economy have the right to protection.

We are asking Governments to take a firmer stance to help tackle piracy by prioritising six key actions:
-Reducing the effectiveness of the easily-identifiable motherships
-Authorising naval forces to hold pirates and deliver them for prosecution and punishment
-Fully criminalising all acts of piracy and intent to commit piracy under national laws, in accordance with their mandatory duty to co-operate to suppress piracy under international conventions
-Increasing naval assets available in this area
-Providing greater protection and support for seafarers
-Tracing and criminalising the organisers and financiers behind the criminal networks.

http://www.saveourseafarers.com

This film was produced by YourFilm and won the Tyne Tees & Borders Royal Television Society Award 2011 for Best Promotion or Commercial.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ransom
• RTS

[CapnCrossbones]

Funny how all the pirates are third world people with very little options. All ships that transport in risky waters should be allowed to carry sufficient means to defend themselves. They should be trained professionally to do so as well. No trading ships that transport through Pirate waters should go without some security crew equipped with good enough weapons to sink pirate vessels. The Japanese whaling fleet had water cannons , flash bangs and assault rifles so why can't trading vessels?

[SamehTattoo1]

جميل

[234JUDI]

Piracy is a subject I've never thought about until now ! This video opened my eyes to the fact that piracy does exist,scary stuff !